Diffutils

Official Download Location

Diffutils (2.8.1):
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/diffutils/

Contents of Diffutils

Last checked against version 2.8.1.

The programs from this package show you the differences between two files or directories. It's most common use is to create software patches.

Diffutils installs the following files:

Program Files

cmp, diff, diff3 and sdiff

Descriptions

Last checked against version 2.8.1.

Program file descriptions

cmp and diff

cmp and diff both compare two files and report their differences. Both programs have extra options which compare files in different situations.

diff3

The difference between diff and diff3 is that diff compares 2 files, diff3 compares 3 files.

sdiff

sdiff merges two files and interactively outputs the results.

Diffutils Installation Dependencies

Last checked against version 2.7.

Bash: sh
Binutils: ld, as
Diffutils: cmp
Fileutils: chmod, cp, install, mv, rm
Gcc: cc1, collect2, cpp0, gcc
Grep: egrep, grep
Make: make
Sed: sed
Sh-utils: date, hostname
Textutils: cat, tr